Re: [FWDLK] Very quiet out there!

[Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For perspective, as to the current price of gas, back in the 60's, 
gasoline was routinely sold for around $0.30/gallon.

Multiply that cost by at least 8-times (and probably 9-times, by now) 
and you see that you/our parents--thank you very
much, Mom & Dad--were paying the equivalvent of  $2.40++/gallon 
day-after-day for cars that were getting 10-15mpg.

Factor in the cost of daily-routine-upkeep maintenance  on those cars, 
which were replaced about every 4-7 years
and which purchase price  was just about as much, for new cars 
nowadays,  ($30k divided by 8/9 = $2.5-3k, then)  and we
got  NOTHING to complain about,  with the service-life cost to operate 
our modern cars  (over 15+ years of ownership).

The reason that our fore-fathers and mothers didn't go ballistic on the 
cost to operate one or two (never three+) cars
was that they didn't "have" to pay for all the amenities (like multiple 
cell phones and cable TV and "designer"-everything
and bigger houses, electronic toys, quad-runners, expensive vacations-- 
with [multiple] credit card/consumer debt; the list is endless)
that are really  useless but which "we" seem to think that we can't seem 
to be able to live without. "They" actually saved-money, with
having, typically, only one bread-winner in the household.

Neil Vedder




ALIENVOICE@xxxxxxx wrote:
> *Gas in Northern Ohio is at $1.83.  Gotta Love It (or have we all been 
> desensitized by high gas prices to the point that this seems cheap?). 
>
> Almost time to put the ForwardLook cars away for the winter (hate that 
> word!).
>
> Larry (Akron)*
>
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